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Here is one link ... http://www.tcm.com/schedule/canada/index.html?tz=CST&sdate=2016-01-04 I just changed the date in the browser when I went to schedule and then clicked on Canada.

The Canadian January schedule is now up. Right away on January 1 I see that there is a substitution for a film that I would have liked to have seen.

TCM has Merrill's Marauders (1962) scheduled for Tuesday, November 24 at 4:15 p.m. This was my favourite Chandler picture as a kid.

Because of his age payment was made directly to his parents and at that time they weren't required to hold his money in trust.

He was wonderful in Tom Sawyer (1930) and Huckleberry Finn (1931) too. Two films that seem to have disappeared. I remember seeing them Saturday mornings when I was a kid.

Monday, October 26 5 p.m. Girl Rush (1944) is replaced in Canada by The Painted Hills (1951). ​Wake me up when the David Niven films are over.

This would be wonderful! One of the reasons Fay Wray is only remembered for King Kong is that so many of her films are not available.

I guess you mean Elliott Gould with two t's.

TIFF has been running a retrospective of Maurice Pialat's films. His widow, Sylvie Pialat was in town yesterday to introduce his film, Loulou (1980) which starred isabelle Huppert and Gerard Depardieu. They then followed Loulou with a film that Sylvie produced, Valley of Love (2015) also starring Isabelle Huppert and Gerard Depardieu. It was directed by Guillaume Nicloux. I'm sure it will be vying to represent France in next years Oscars. Valley of Love has a terrific premise. A couple, long divorced reunite in Death Valley to pay tribute to their dead son per his wishes. He had committed suicide. In her introduction, Sylvie mentioned that this was especially poignant for Gerard Depardieu as he had lost his son, actor Guillaume Depardieu in 2008 due to complications of pneumonia. Personally, I didn't think the screenplay lived up to the premise and promise of the film. That said it was like a breath of fresh air to watch a 'foreign' film for a change with no CGI and to see two great actors at the top of their game. Huppert really does deserve a SUTS day! Depardieu now looks like Brando in his latter days. But he does not hide it. In fact he appears in just bathing trunks or shorts for most of the film. The third star of the film as Sylvie pointed out is Death Valley and its heat. Highly recommended for fans of Isabelle Huppert and Gerard Depardieu.

Sunday, October 25 11:00 a.m. Canadian viewers will miss out on Topaze (1933) with John Barrymore and Myrna Loy which is a shame. Its replacement is It’s a Wonderful World (1939) with Claudette Colbert and James Stewart which has played quite a lot in the past few years. I agree Swithin. Little Dorrit looked fantastic in HD.

Saturday, October 24/25 My introduction to Oskar Homolka as a kid was Mr. Sardonicus (1961). Oskar was the man with the leeches and the crazy bushy eyebrows. 12:15 a.m. The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969). I read the play in high school and Bryan Forbes’ films are usually pretty good. 4:30 a.m. Over the Edge (1979). Attack the Block (2011) director, Joe Cornish introduced this ‘epiphany’ film at the BFI a few years ago. Directed by Jonathan Kaplan and starring a young Matt Dillion. It’s pretty good. I couldn’t get over those huge hair combs that the guys kept in their back pockets in those days.

It was the parrot that you see in the scene just as he trashes the bedroom in Xanadu. The parrot told everyone.

Two of my other favourites in Little Dorrit are Max Wall and Roshan Seth. David Bradley as the Argus Filch character in the Harry Potters reminds me of Max Wall in Dorrit. And of course, Alec Guinness is just master class.

Joan Greenwood is terrific in Little Dorrit too. I just watched Kind Hearts and Coronets again the other night. She is so great in that one. Perfect as the kittenish temptress.

Friday, October 23 8 a.m. Little Dorrit part two (1987). 11:15 a.m. The Gay Diplomat (1931). Looks like an interesting Betty Compson film though one imdb critic dubs Ivan Lebedeff the worst leading man. 5:30 p.m. The Woman In Red (1935). A Barbara Stanwyck that I have not seen. 6:45 p.m. Snowed Under (1936). A George Brent film that I have not seen.

Classic SPAM, I might call it.

thanks HelenBaby. In the case of my cable company the young gentleman I spoke with (who probably knows jack) said the decision would have come from TCM. I suspect it may indeed be the cable companies as they want us to rent their recorders.

I think he knows that and back we go to Jamesjazzguitar's astute observation that 'Classic' in TCM is merely a marketing tool.

Well, we do have palm trees in London and it is often quite a bit hotter there than places not too far away which may still be under melting snow. And I have known it to be like summer suddenly in late February and March. Odds on the summers are then miserable.

I lived in an igloo until I was 14 and had to beat wolves off with a stick on the way to school. And that was in downtown Toronto. But try telling that to the kids of today and they won't believe you.

To anyone going on next month's classic cruise, please ask the powers at be to reverse their decision to encrypt TCM with record blocking copy protect signals. Many fans of TCM like to record movies and watch them later on their own home-purchased recording devices. The cable companies are rendering this no longer possible. This move is not about copy'right' protection but about companies wishing us to rent their own new recording equipment. And once you have their ear perhaps you could request Hot Spell.

Fred, we don't mind those films from 80 years ago. That's why we watch TCM. They are on almost every day. What bugs me is that when they don't replay those films ad naseum and try something a little bit different once in a blue moon all of a sudden the sky is falling.

Would you skip over 1943 in your definition of classic film? Outside of a couple of films it wasn't as good as many a year in the 60's 70's, 80's etc.

I thought the topic was what is classic film, not what is TCM. BTW - I know we can get those films elsewhere - even in Canada.

Thursday, October 22 The daytime films all seem to be about Ireland. I mean Scotland. Oh, what’s the difference! Again, the spotlight on women filmmakers is the best of the week IMHO. 8 p.m. Losing Ground (1982). Haven’t seen this one. Nor .. 1:30 a.m. Middle of Nowhere (2012) 3:45 a.m. Best Men (1977) 5 a.m. Little Dorrit part one (1987). This is really worth recording (if you are still able to). The entire cast is terrific: Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Max Wall and Roshan Seth are standouts. And don’t forget Part Two at 8 a.m.